Brice Matthieussent takes a witty, provocative look at the figure of the translator, questioning the aptness of the French term “le passeur” to describe the translator’s role.
A Wordless Coma
En passant
Erín Moure summons the reader to be constantly attentive to the trembling movement of (and between) languages, in this nimble reflection on the notion of the “intranslatable.”
The Inca Conquest of Europe
Vincent Kling reviews Sam Taylor’s translation of Laurent Binet’s «Civilizations», examining the tension between fiction and history that pervades all three of Binet’s novels.
Taking a «Little Art» into Your Own Hands
Digging into Briggs’s «This Little Art», with a detour into the Killer Bs of translation theory, Dawson Campbell reflects on the idea of “tact” and its relation to translation criticism.
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